The Sun. — London, England, 1838-10-05 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR WINDSOR, THURSDAY. —The Queen enjoyed her accustomed airing in th e P ar k this afternoon. Her Majesty rode on horse back, and was attended by Baroness Lehzen, Lady Charlotte Copley, Miss Quentin, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount Palmer ston, the Earl of Uxbridge, the Hon. Colonel Cavendish, the 11 00. C. A. Murray, Viscount Torrington, Sir Henry Wheat ley, the Hon. W. Temple, and Sir Robert Otway. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess o! Oldenburgh, Lady Mary Stopford, and La Baronne D'Aretin, rode out in a pony phaeton. Lady Little ton, and the Ladies E. and C. Paget also rode out in open carriages. Sir Henry Wheatley arrived at the Castle last night. The Hon. Miss Lister has succeeded the Hon. Miss Paget as Maid of Honour. rile Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, and attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt, came to town y es t er d ay morning. Her Royal Highness and the Princess returned to Kew in the afternoon. The Marquis of Clanricardo transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Department. Viscount Palmerston returned to Windsor Castle on Wed nesday afternoon. Lord Glenelg visited Lori Palmerston yesterday at the Foreign Office. Lord John Russell was expected to arrive at Woburn yes terday from Liverpool. The Marquis of Lansdowne has returned to his seat, Bo- Wood Park, Wilts. Sir John Macdonald, th e Adj utant -G enera l of the Forces, visited the Waterloo Model, at the Egyptian Hall, yesterday. Guard The Adjut an t-G enera l saw Officers yesterday at the Horse s. Sir W m. P arker, Lieutenant- Colonel Angelo, Mr. Fowel B l uxton, Mr. M'Queen, and Mr. Granviilc, had interviews with Lord Glenelg yesterday at the Colonial Office. The Russian Ambassador transacted business yesterday at at the Foreign Department. L , The H anoverian Minister bad an interview yestefday with ord Palmer s t on at the Foreign Department. uusi lThe Turkish, Fren c h, an d . Austrian Amb assa d ors t ransacte d ness yesterday at the For e i gn D epartment. .His Exce directllency P r i nce E ster h azy i s a b out to proceed to 'enna . The F rench Ambassador ' s departure, it is supposed, will take place about the 15th inst. t , The H on . M r. Ashley, Vice-Chamberlain and Treasurer to the Queen D owager , returned to town yesterday morning from attending her Majesty on her embarcation at Portsmouth. , Despat c h es were f orwarded yesterday from Downing-street f or Lord Melbourne at Windsor. Sier r b egpatches f rom Li eutenan t-C o l one l D o h erty, G overnor of a Leone, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Despatches were forwarded yesterday from the Foreign De partment, for the British Ministers resident at the Courts of Greece, Switzerland, and Rome. Despatches were received yesterday at the Foreign Depart tlent from the British Ambassadors resident at the Courts of Brussels and the Hague. Despatches were forwarded yesterday from the Foreign De- P ilv trnent fcr the British Charges d'Affaires at Lisbon and . wattfirid. t L l:t espatehes, dat e d the 25th ult., were received yesterday at "e Poreiga Department from the British Charge d'Aff a ir es air M a d rid. De spatches were forwarded yesterday from the Colonial C e P ar tment for Lord D u rham, the Governo r . G enera l o f t h e 4144 % and for the Officers administeri ng h er M a j esty ' s Go ernment in the British Dependencies in North A mer i ca . at Desp atches, dated the I 2th ult., were received yesterday t he Foreignt C Departmni einople.nt from Lord Punsonby, th e B r i t i s h Ambassador aonsta Lord E Z.or Aenborough has returned to Southam House. ar Cheltertf a m ,. from a visit - to Si r R o b ert P ee l , B art., 1) : . and Lady Peel, at Drayton Manor. ti„ Sir W m. Follett, VI. P., has been a mong th e clis /gui‘h,>d guests of Si r R o b ert P ee l , B art., M. P., and Lady isenel, at Drayton Manor. We are happy t o state , S;r Wiliamovv in the enjoyment of better health than for some time Past. Colonel the Hon. George Anson and a party have arrived in town from Newmarket. Our l ate arr i va l s (at Littlehampton) include Lady B arnard, Lady Murray, and Col. Rogers.---Bri g hton Gazette. Th e Marquis of Tweeddile is attendin g various agri cultural meetings on the borders of Scotland, in his way south ; an d his Lordship expects to be able to visit his family at Kimboltoo Castle, about the close of the present we. k. The Earl and Countess of Cawdor and the Ladies Campbell left the Golden Grove, ill Carm irthensh ire, on Mond a y last, for Stackpole Cutut, iu Pembrokeshi re . The - Earl and Countess of Jermyn and the Hon. Mr. and Lady Georgina Grey, left St. James's-cquee. yes _ ti rday for the south of France, where the Noble Earl an d o -eure ess inte n d so j ourn i ng un til the latter end of Febru a ry. The - Earl and Countess of Harrington have left t own for St. Leonard's for a short. period. Earl C a d ogan left town on T ues d ay l ast for Venice, to join t h e Countess Cadogan and the Ladies Augusta and Henoria Cadogan, wh o have been in Italy fur several weeks. ttThe Earl of Cardigan has retunifd the occupancy ,„ 4 , b is mansion on C arlton-terrace, which his Lordship let to in India L'"vager C ountess of Sandwich during his recent sojourn C Th e Earl an d C ountess of Craven are now at Pee Abb ey , near Coventry. —Birmingham Advertiser. I, f he Co untess o f C arvsfort ie at Eiton Hall, in .iunti ngdomhire and does riot intend visitin Glenart Castle ibis year, as has been reported. g Lord Francis Egerton, M.P., joined his lady at the fa e milY at, Worsley H a ll, L ane %shire on Saturd ay , f rom olif'ddo seat, where hi s L or d s hi p has been' visiting the Eat I pee berd een . Th e Duchess-Ceuntess of Sutherland was ex at Worsley ed at Worsley yesterday, from Dann-thin Castle. Great tls°Parations have been made at th e H a ll for fie recepti on o f Zat Lady, and a distinguished circle has been invited by Lord Lady Francis' Egerton to meet her Grace. Lord an d Lady Ashburton i n t en d l eav i ng t h e f Gra "t"e, n ear Alresford, in Hampshi re , on t h e 10th instant, 1 With House, Piccadilly, on their way to the Continent. The Hon. Charle s C ompton C aven di s h an d t h e t h - l'Y Catherine intend receiving company at Latimer's about C close of the present month. p Ile Hon. Edward Thomas Foley and the Lady are on their way home from Milan. Mr Foley has re • ten t h, th e t Purchased a noble mansion in Portman.square, formerly -a u°de of Mr. K. Digby. 11 ; Th e Duke of Bedford has left Belgrave-square for (i r e g h t°ro where the Duchess and Lord Alexander Russell are z -e eted fro m a visit to her Giace's cottage at the Dome. of pothiemurchua. The Duke and Duchess, and the Ladies , u , sael will leave Brighton early in the ensuing week fur l e e -816 gb House, near Tavistoek. ae has ALKEITII PALACE.—The Duke of Buccleuch par ty t o t hi s noble residence , and is entertaining a large Y of tile Nobility.— Glasgow Courier. Th e ll ochess-Countess of Sutherland left Dunrobin . ,ti e On e Monday last, on a visit to Lord and Lady Francis Gi g . e. o, at Woraley Hall, near Manchester; thence her te ei t i ce comes to town. Lord Belgrave, Lord Ward, Lord d Ath. s Yn. Lord William Bentinck, the American Minister and d I,teyenson, Viscount Maidstone, Mr. Calvert, and Mr. G re 'l,ra Loch were the latest visitors at the Castle before her m s departure. ine ,411RIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—On Tuesday morbn tr;:,e,"er4l Viscount Combermere, G. C. 8., led to the y l\lis , a , it ar, at St. George's Church, Hanover-square, he -I °°irees, daughter of Dr. Gibbinge of Brighton. arid egrernony took place in the presence of the Earl Ileeb'oentess B-auchamp, the Earl and Countess ? 's'n te ? i r c'uLb. Lord and Lady Marcus Hill, General s Sir Rre..,re'ec Hawker, Miss Cotton (sister to the noble brided bride-„'' the Hon. Meliora Cotton, &c. The bride and ele4e7:"Tri immediately after the ceremony, set off n a eliee-iti`rnew travellin g chariot and four for . Combermere Abbey,. at tl e• A sureptuuus dejeuner was given on the occasion G ;h~iin n runswick-h ouse H ote l, Hanover square, by Mrs. 4 111 0n gl, t o t h e distinguished persons who attended the c 01... l ... Y. rE 17 1 ', It r ilM lig SITUATION OF THE DUCHESS O h l? 4C'''E-" • --- -Th •you ng and beautiful Duchess of Bucelene I \l 4 nar? • k or) the mountain of Ben t ee ow escape lest Aee • . • th e /3 . Tile Duke as been deer-t,tallting 13,idenoch ; mona d f',,,tlehees, Monday' last, undertook to ascend Ben Nevi morti a - ",„'""rn Corpach inn, at the western' end of the Cale- Y o nne `' a rlhl• She was accompanied on the expedition by a with Teentle man, linear relation of the Duke ; arid they took Itisi e . „"e e ra guide whoproved subsequeialy imperfectly ac lain, t l" with the'road. P. When on the summit of the 411 Q day, which bad previously been fine, become hazy. s ' 4 'ere W4 S at the same time drawing on: The little party , - '''-uvelop e d in a dense mist, and the guide becami. Ne e bewildered. The-Duchess. with a degree of moral thege Scarcely to have been anticipated in a young lady of til e -a te nurture and constitution, exerted herself to keep up 14spar; of her companions, and nerve them to persever ! exertion. Her . efforts had been unavailing amid that wole e d r less of precipice and morasses--for who can say what il'o e ?aye been the effect of exposure to the inclement li e es alr on so deli Cate a frame?—but for the sagacious exer . - Ilise ll ° f Mr. John McDonald, proprietor of the Ben Nevis 4 sct t e } : . !.. The lon g delay of the Duchess had excited . alarm. 4s eu I mba bitants of Fort William were mustering to the With bum" Mr. McDoneld mounted his horse, and taking t4Tee e P u rl(' of the bell caught the car of the wanderers, ane liee;r_achess and her noble'relative were by this ingenious de Avid Clied from their dangerous situation. Mr. McDonald', dy lidv4isnegon7ienverted into a temporary pack-saddle, the noble . y . ed ie an almost exhausted , state to Fort Wil terrtit'os'i;l:ere tired nature's best restorer effaced all traces o f Nl ) , ae ' The gratitude of the noble family to Mr. McDonald vatt Promptitude averted a misfortune which must have glc'orn, not onlyover the whole house of' " the b eli e. cietich f •i Scotland, has been ac ome but and wile tnroug Whi ch • , ed with th t frank grace and substantial liberalit eeede characterise the noble pair to whom his services were D r( Glasgow Courier. 114„ avt:R, UST. 4 s Excellency Prince Ester- Li, arrived last night at the York Hotel from London with . kles_p" tt t he Prince Nicholas, and embarked this morning 1,^411 the n'a stearai.r for Boulogne. under the usual salu r e l er v. eter n Tne Prince is on his way fr e 'llk Tor Rit,ht tf Henryell art ived e te , On. Sir enry vulogne. ARRIVALS. TAILINGS. SCHOONERS.—The Wanderer and Merlin. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE SEPT. 30, 6 P. ii. —The Sparrowhawk cutter, Edward Heneage, Esq., M.P., from Brighton. Light breeze, W. N. W. 7P. ar.—The Wanderer, schooner, T. W. Beau mont, Esq., from Brighton. OCT. 1, 5. 30. P. m. —The Kestrel, cutter, Commodore Earl of Yarborough from Weymouth. Light breeze, N. NE. SEPT, VA 9. 15. A. m. —The Kestrel, cutter, Commodan Earl of Yarborough, on a cruise to the westward. 30th 9. A.m.—The Ruby, cutter, Rowland Mitchel, Esq., for Brighton. Fresh breeze, N. E. OCT. "2, 6 A. M.—The Harriett, schooner, John Beard. more, Esq., for London. Fresh breeze, N. E. YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION. CUTTERS.—The Kestrel, Sparrowhawk, Union, Fanny, Blue Eyed Maid, Albatross, Forest Fly, Elizabeth, Sapphire, and Amazon. This being the best month in the whole year for bathing, there are still a number of visitors to enjoy the pleasures of a dip in the brine. The town is indeed much fuller of company than it commonly is at this season of the year, all anxious to change the lilies on their cheeks for roses, which our breeies easily do for them. Baron Alderson has taken Harriet Lodge for October. Sir Lowry Cole is in treaty for Earl De Grey's Marine Villa for a-month. SPORTING IN 'FELLIGEN CE. LAKE ERIE, and the " GREAT WEST " The western termination of the Erie canal looks out upon Lake Erie, the most southerly and central of that great chain of navigable lakes which stretches far into the interior from our western boundary. Around these inland seas, a great cluster of five great States is rapidly rising. The territory which they comprise, and which is to become tributary to the canal, embraces that great area extending from the lakes on the north to the Oilio on the south, and from the western con fines of this State to the Upper Mississippi, and contains 280,000 square miles. This is fifteen times as large as the State of New York west of the county of Oneida—nearly twice as large as the kingdom of France, and about six times as extensive as the whole of England. It contains one hundred and eighty millions of acres of arable land, a large proportion of which is of surpassing fertility. The productive power of this region is greedy strengthened by the facilities it enjoys for cheap and easy transportation ; for it is nearly encircled by navigable waters, anti its broad area is intersected, in numerous directions, by., streams furnishing ample means of conveyance—while unusual facilities for the construction of canals and other artificial channels of communication are affirded by the level and uniform character of its surface. These being its advantages, it needs only th e requisite population. Its progress in this respect has been surprising. In 1816, Ohio was the only State government within its limits. In that year, Indiana, having obtained the requisite number of 60,000 inhabitants, entered the Union. Illinois and Michigan were then feeble territorie , with a few ssttlers thinly scattered over their broad surface while Wisconsin, unknown even by name, vi.rs an undistin guished portion of the great north-western territory. I n the brief period of twenty-one years such has been the influx of -population into this great district, that Ohio, the eldest member in this brotherhood of nations, now nurabera 1,400,000 inhabitants, Indian a upwards of 600,000, Illinois and Michigan (both of whom have or ganized their governments and come into the Union) 700,000 —while west of Lske Michigan, not only is Wiscoesin rapidly rising, but even beyond the Upper Mississippi, 30,000 citizens have already laid the foundations. of yet another State. Th e population already eiabraced within the district in question falls little short of 3,000.000, and if the same rate of progress shall be maintained tor the twelve years next to come, by the year 1850 it will probably exceed 6,000,000. " The peculiar activity and energy of these people are also worthy of consideration. They probably possess a greater aggregate power of production than any other portion equally numerous of the human race. Their population is mad e up almost exclusively of the young, the resolute, the vigorous, and the intelligent, who have gone from more crowded communities, to seat -themselves around this chain of waters, and there to build up an empire. They have taken with them the laws, habits, language, and institutions of their pare et States—but, above all, they have carried into that vast field an honest love of labour,—aud in the very act of or ganizing their Government, they testified their willingness to exert and rely upon their own energies, by abolishing slavery for ever throughout all their limits This group of inland States has two outlets for its trade to the ocean—one by the Mississippi, to the Gulf of Mexico; the other throngh Lake Erie acid the navigable communications of this State, to the Atlantic. Whether it be attributsble to sirniliarity of origin, or laws, or habits, or to ties of consanguinity, or superior salu brity of climate, this people evidently prefer the market on the Atlantic ; and they arc making prodigious efforts to reach it. Three great canals_ one of them longer than the Eric ea- nal, and embracing in their aggregate length 1,000 miles, are to connect the Ohio with Lake Erie, while another deep and capacious channel excavated for nearly thirty miles through solid rock, unites Like Michigan with the navigable waters of the Illinois. They are also constructing lines of rail-road; not less than 1,500 miles in extent, in order to reach with more ease and speed the lakes, through which they seek a conveyance to the sea-board. This undaunted resolu tion is strikingly •sinced by the fact, that the cost of the great works they have thus undertaken (and most of which e in progrees), will exceed 48 000,000 of dollars, a sum tar exceeding all that New York, with 2,000,000 inha bitants and 200 years of accumulated wealth, has ever at tempted. The circumstance, moreover, is particularly important, that the public works of each of these great communities are arranged on a harmonious plan, each having a main line supported and enriched by lateral and tributary branches—thereby bringing the industry of their whole people into prompt and profitable action—while the systems them selves are again united on a grander scale in a series of sys tems comprising an aggregate length of more than 2, 500 miles, wth L i ke E r i e as i ts common centre. Th e ya hoos portions of this vast work are now in a train of rapid construc tion. Indiana alone has 6.000 men in her employ, and Ohio, Illinois, and Michigan, are making correspondent efforts; se that it may be confidently predicted that, within seven year s fromt the lakes crowd th this time wh ol e inland nt n e dt r r a a n d e e e (of thef t that broad canal,rioadregi on around on its way to the Atlantic." NGLISH BOXING-M ATCHES IN FRANCE.We are glad to fir.d that this disgusting subject occupies the.at tention of the French Government. The Droit states thst legal measures are abnut to be taken, not only for preventing the recurrence of boxing -matches in France, but also fur punishing the parties concerned in the disgraceful exhibition near St. Maur, which we mentioned not long since. The extensive cotton mills of M. ltosacv, at Ouilly le Vicomte, in Calvados, were totally destroyed by fire a few nights since. A chgonnzer, or rag gatherer, was th ree days ago arrested at Boulogne-sur- Seine, for wearing the ribard of the Legion of Honour without being entitled to it. Prince Louis Bo naparte, according to the Federal of Geneve, having appli e d to the British 'Minister at Berne , for a passport to England, Mr. Morier referred to Lord Granville, at Paris, who, after consuWng with Count Mole, returned an assent to the deliver/of the. passport requited. EMBARKATION OF THE QUEEN DOWAGER. PorsrsmouTa, OCT. 3. —The Queen Duwager embarked this day on board the Hastings. The whole of the garrison I were under arms at two p. m., and lined the streets of Portsea , from the Lion-gates, through St. George's-square, and along Common Hard to the Dock-yard gates, and from thence to the wharf below the King's-stairs, where a guard of honour with the Marine band were statioLed. The Meteor steamer, decked out with flags, her decks carpetted with crimson cloth, was waiting alongside the wharf; and a platform, or tempo rary boarded footway, also covered with crimson cloth, ex tended from that vessel to the place where her Majesty was to alight from her carriage. On board the Meteor was the band of Sir Philip Durham. At three. p. m. the Queen Dowager arrived in an open carriage, attended by Lord Howe and the Ladies Denbigh and Sheffield, and escorted by a guard of Lancers. Two other carriages brought the suite and atten dants. She was received by the Commander-in-Chief, Sir P. Durham (who had the honour of escorting her on board the Meteor), Sir T. Macmahon, Lord Adolphus Fitaclarenee, Sir G. Sejmour, &c., and by all the naval captains and the heads of the military department at this place. Her Majesty was plainly dressed, and although thin, looked well. s, soon as she had embarked on board the Meteor the royal standard was hoisted, and she proceeded out to Spit head. The Britannia, the Victory, and the Excellent, previously dressed out with flags, manned yards, saluted her with twenty-one guns, and cheered as the Meteor passed, as did likewise the Edinburgh, the Pique, the Acteeon, and the Orestes at Spit head, as the Meteor passed them. The Messesger went out to Spithead. with the retinue. At five the Hastings got wider weigh, and proceeded to sea, attended by the two steam-ves - sell. The Messenger will return after the Hastings is round St. Helen's. The Meteor will accompany her to Gibraltar. The Queen's arrival at Portsmouth drew tog( ther an immense concourse of people, and we are most happy to state that she was received with every possible demonstration of respect. We should think that at a moderate computation at least 20,000 people were attracted to the Dock-yard and streets through which the carriage passed, arid round the lines of Portsmouth facing the sea. The people cheered enthusiast' tally as she passed. The restless spirit and daring enterprise' of the people inhabiting the provinces along the sea coast of the United States, have produced results unequalled in the history of the world. They far surpass all that we read in " Greek and Roman story," or in the accounts of any colonies founded by the most power ful States under the most favourable circumstances, No progress, in fact, as regards civilization in any part of the globe can be compared to the rapid and gigantic strides made within half a century by the . descendants of emigrants and outcasts from the com munity of this little island. Within that period this wonderful people have raised themselvis from the rank of dependent colonists to a degree of wealth and power which entitles them to be classed with the most potent States in Europe ; they sur pass all save the Mother Country in navigation and commerce—the principal sources of her strength, and her they surpass; too, in the great ness of their undertakings for facilitating internal com merce, and bringing the productions of their vast and rich country to the best market.. Much as they have hitherto done on the east coast, they appear only to be beginning when we look to the west. States that sprung up but a few years ago, and which now con tain a population of three millions, are engaged in constructing Canals and Railroads requiring vast ca pital, and to an extent which hardly any capital could accomplish in this country. The following extract from a report of the Committee of WayS and Means, in the Legislature of New York, for this year, will give our readers some idea of the vast resources and enterprise of these new States, and afford them also delight when they find that one of the great principles on which these Governments are founded, is the abo lition of slavery for ever throughout all their domi nions. What with the emancipation of our negro po pulation in the West Indies—the proposed change in the French colonies—and the growino hostility to sla very in the w es t an d northern States of America, the slave-breeders in Virginia and Carolina will soon find themselves as comfortable as their friend Mr. O'CoN NELL wishes them : THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1838 POST-OFFWE ARRANGEMEN TS. NOTICE. General Post Office, ht Oct. 1838. The Morning Mails are now despatched from London a Half-past Ten o'C!ock, A.M. The Letter Boxes at the Branch Offices Charing-cross, Vere-street, and the Borough, will be open for the reception of Newspapers until Ball-past .Eight o'clock, and for Letters until Nine. At the General Post Office and the Branch Office in Lombard -street, the Boxes will close for Newspapers at Nine, and for Letters at a Quarter before Ten, A.M. W. L. MAI3ERL Y, Secretary. NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING, Y ESTRADA F. The Rutlar.d Stakes of 3Q sovs. each, 20 ft., for two years old colts, Bst. 71b ; fillies, Bst. 31b. From the turn of the lands in The winner of the July or Chesterfield Stakes, 71b. extra ; al other winners 31bs. extra. 9 Subs. General Gates's b. c. Canute Lord Stiffield's f. Alms, by Langar Lord Exeter's f. by Sultan Lord Exeter's f. by Iledgauntlet • 4 Duke of• Grafton's ch. e. Nominee, by St. Patrick Betting.-_5 to 4 agst Nominee, 3to 1 agst Canute. Canute made all the running, but found such resolute opponents in Alms and the Sultan filly, that he could only win by a head; Alms having the same advantage over the third. Nominee was beaten off. The Town Plate of 50/., for three years old; colts, Bst. 71b ; and fillies, Bst. 31b. D. I. ...Pavis Lord Exeter's Mecca . Darling Lord G. Bentinek's Brother to Muley Moloch . 2 Betting-7 to 4on Brother to Muley Moloch. The horse made play as on Wednesday, was caught in the same way and at the same spot, and beaten cleverly by a length. The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas ; for four yrs old, 10st. 71b ; five yrs, I Ist. 71b • six yrs, I Ist. 121 b ; an d age d, 12 st . R. C . Duke of Rutland's Hat-trap, 4 yrs Robinson 1 Lord Exeter's Adrian, 4 yrs 2 Lord H. Sevmour's Scroggins, 5 yrs B Mr. Forth's - Emprise, 4 yrs Mr. N. May's Sir Felix, 6 yrs Betting-7 to 4 agst Scroggins, 2to 1 agst Rat-trap, 7to 2 agst Adrian (taken), 5 to 1 agst Emprise, and 20 to 1 agst Sir Felix. Adrian cut out all the werk, followed by Emprise till near home, when Rat-trap went up, took the lead from him without trouble, and won in a canter by three lengths. DERBY. 8 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's lot—taken 13 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Brother to Bay Middleton lj to I agst Lord Lichfield's Gulnare colt 40 to 1 agst Ilderine—taken Wednesday Night. The account sent from the Heath, supplied all the particu lars the racing called for. In the evening 13 to 1 was laid against Brother to Bay Middleton, 20 to 1 ag ainst Flambeau, arid 1,000 to 30 ag a i nst H oneymoon. 20 to l offered against Boz (iaki. 25 to 1.) An objection has been entered against Lord Suffield's Vernon, on th e groun d t h at h e i s described in the Stud Book as by " Camel," and in his engagement as by " Laurel," the sire mentiolied in the certificate given by Mr. Theobald to his Lordship when the purchase was made. Mr. Theobald declares that he is by Laurel, and that the mistake is in the Stud Book. The weather continues remarkably fine, Lot there is no increase in the arrivals. YORKSHIRE UNION CLUB MEETING. WEDNESDAY. Sweepstakes. of 15 sovs. each, p.p., for horses the property of Officers of the sth Dragoon Guards. 12g. each. One mile and a half. • Mr. Whittaker's b. g. Spotless, aged Ovine- I Captain Chambery's b. g. The Cardinal, aged .... Sir. Prince's ch. f. Little John, aged 3 Betting-6 to 4on The Cardinal. Won easy. A Gold Cup, or Piece of Plate, given by the Club, added to a Sweepstakes of 10 ssys. each, h. ft., for maiden horses, not thorough-bred; three yrs, 10st. ; four yrs, 1 Ist. 21b. ; five yrs, 11,1. 12th ; six yrs and aged. 12st. 41b. Two miles. 11 Subs. Mr. G. Salvin's ch. h. Slyfellow, aged Owner 1 Captain Elnisall's b. Selina. by Young Phantom, 6 yrs .. Mr. L. Thompson's b. in. Gazelle, by Mulatto, 5 yrs Colonel C. 11. Thompson's b. g. Hamlet, 4yrs 4 Sir. E. H. Ileynard's ch. c. by Hargrave, 3 yrs Mr. Ibbotson's ch. g. Oliver TAist, by Roller, 5 yrs Mr. Bell na. b. ta. Leyburna, by Stottorth, 3 yrs 7 Sir. 11. S. Thompson's b. in. by Columbus, 5 yrs Betting—Hamlet and Twist agst the field, 5 to 2 agst Hamlet, 3to I ,:gs. Slyfellow, and 4to 1 apt Gazelle. Won easy. The Champagne Plate, given by the Club, added to a Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, p.p. ; three yrs, 10st. 41b. ; four yrs, llst. 21b. ; five yrs, llst. 101 b. ; s i x y rs an d age d , 12st. 21b. Two miles. Winners once in 1837 or 183 i Sibs ; twice 71bs. extra. Half-bred horses allowed lilbs. Mile and three quarters. Mr. Bell's br. m. Zebetta, by Langar, 5 yrs. (Capt. Williams) 1 Mr. Ibbotson's b. in. Susanna. by Figaro, aged Hon. G. W. Fitzwilliam's b. g. Alalay, 5 yrs .. ' Lord Miltown's gr. g. Cassio, aged Mr. H . S. Thompson's b. f. Whirlwind, 3 yrs 5 Mr. Whittaker's b. g. Algiers, by lii , h Homer, aged 7 Mr. J. R. Mackenzie's br. g. Brown Jim, aged The following also started, but were not placed :—Mr. L. Thompson's hr. h. Yarloy, by Sandbeek, 6 yrs; and Mr. Creyke's b. m. Taglioni, by Brutandurf, 5 yrs. Betting-2 to 1 agst Ze betta, 4to 1 agst Susanna, and sto 1 agst. Whirlwind. Won easy by two lengths. A Silver Claret Cup, given by the winner of the Club Races in 1837, added to a Sweeotakes of 5 sovs. each, p.p., for horses of all ages that have been regularly hunted for two seasons, and that have not been in training for any stake for two years previous to starting, 13st. each. Two miles. 6 Subs. Mr. H, S. Thompson's b. in. Helen Percy 0 1 Mr. Bowes's oh. m. Zarifa, aged .. Capt. Hovenden's eh. g. Salt fish ( late Berkhampstead), aged 3 Betting-6 to 4 agst Zarifa, and 6to 4 agst Helen Percy ; after the dead heat 5t04 on Zarifa. Won by a head. The Scurry Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 20 added, 10st. each ; thormigh-red horses 141 b. extra. The winner to be sold for 50 sots. Half a mile. 10 Subs. Capt. Elrusall's b. m. Selina (h. b.) Owner 1 Mr. Ibbotson's b. f. Santarella Mr. 11. S. Thompson's br. g. Turpin, 5 yrs 3 Col. G. 11. Thompson's Mr. Merryman, aged 4 Capt. Chambers's b. g. The Cardinal (h. b. ), aged Betting-2 to 1 agst Mr. Merryman, and sto 2 agst Turpin. Won by a leizth. AQUATICS. GMAT SCtLLERS' RE G ATTA.--The extraordinary beauty of the weather and the great intrust excited on the occasion amongst the leading aquatic men, drew as large an atten dance yesterday or, the Thames as we have witnessed for a length of time; nor acre the banks and bridges without their share of spectators desirous of witnessing the respective con tests There were three distinct matches, so arranged that persons had an opportunity of witnessing the most interesting part of each and all at the same time, the wagers being started in rapid succession from Westminster Bridge and finishing at Putney. The competitors were Coorehes, the celebrated Westminster man, next only to Charles Campbell, the cham pion, and Kelly, a InPu of herculean frame, belonging to Fulham. This was the second contest between the pair. Coombes had defeated his adversary after a foulinc- wager only the day before, but the Fulham men were not satisfied. and2o/. more was deposited directly after their arrival for the wager of yesterday. Tne next pair in this regatta were Benjamin Lewis, of Old Swan Stairs, and George Everard. of Black friars ; they were considered very evenly matched, and a good deal of money had been laid out in favour of Everard. The two last men opposed to each other on the list were Thimas and Southern, both men plying at Chelsea, neither of them much known es a wagermen. The cutters belonging to the different men showed at West minster-bridge by two o'clock, and, in a few minutes after wards, the competitors, Everard and Lewis, were the first pair started. They went off evenly together, but Everard very shortly got the lead, maintained it, and won by upwards of half a minute. Thomas and Southem were immediately after wards placed. The forriter took the lead well, and went first through Vauxhall-bridge, but here his opponent began to gain, and passed him off the Red House. Southern won by two minutes. Coomhes and Kelly were then placed, and on this, the great trial of the day. thousands depended. They Mere scull and scull to Chandler's, where Kelly went half a length in advance ; they wre again scull and scull at the Pe ttitentiary, where Coombe; drew slightly a-head. They were under the arch of Vauxhall-bridge together; Coombee then rowed away from his antagonist, and won by about two hun dred yards. The match was throughout beautifully contested. Boning at t-tarting was fire and six to four on Coombes. There was no fouling allowed ycst(rday. Lord Colchester has purchased a house in Great Cumberland-street, opposite H; de Park. Mr. Law has been .selected from the numerous can didates for the situation of Treasury Clerk, and has received !lis appointment accordingly.—Globe. We have authority for stating that there is not the slightest foundation for the report of an intended marriage )eiwean Lady Caroline Gordon Lennox and Lord Villiers.— Morning Paper. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—On Thursday, Oct. 4th, married, at St. George's Church, Hanover-square, y the Archdeacon of Nottingham, the H-m. and Rev. James Norton, brother of Lord Granth, to Isabella Lowndes, only ehild of Thomas Lowndes, Esq., of Barrington Hall and !leron Gate, in Essex, Millingsley, in Surrey, Hampstead- Blackheath. and Down The bridegroom and lovely )side set off for Anningsiey shortly after the wedding, to pass he hone;moon. Mr. Hudson, the newly-appointed Secretary of Le :ration at Washington, was resident Gentleman. Usher and Private Secretary to her Majesty during the late reign, and roth: r to one of her Maids of Honour, who is included in the lloYal Suite to Malta. tlr. Iltulson replaces Mr. Banichea4, he proceeds a. Seem; ary to ponsont;y!s mission at Con - aminople.—Lit was Mr. Hudson who went to Italy after I. peel.] COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. Othello was produced here last evening for the first time this season, but with a prospect of being often repeated, if we are to judge by the warmth and enthusiasm of its new recep tion. The tragedy was strongly cast— Macready performing the part of the Moor. Vandenhuff playing lago ; Mr. Ander son, Cassio; Miss Helen Faucitt, Desdemona ; and Mrs. Warner, Emilia. Mr. Macreadi's Othello is a noble and finished performance, much in our humble judgment excelling in merit either his Hamlet or Coriolanus, It is true that the acting is in some measure unequal, and that many passages in the play which do not require either deep fervour or the full. ness of passionate energy, are tainted with a monotonous mannerism that falls sadly upon the e ar . O ccas i ona lly, too, there -is an infelicity of attitude and demeanor ; but, upon the whole, the bearing of Macready is lofty, dignified, and graceful, and full of most striking im press of the character. His speech to the senate is perhaps too coldly classical and declamatory ; but there are pares of it which are very effective. His is one, however, _chose genius warms visibly with the inspiration of the - aenie it has to ibustrate, and thus it is that his most glo rious burets as an actor crown ever those passages upon which the poet has poured the most of brilliancy acid power ; and it is by no means a poor compliment to Mr. Macready to say that he is ever greatest where Shakspeare is greatest too. His conception of the whole character of the Moor is true and beautiful—his impersonation of it animated, vigorous, and sometimes even grand. He is triumphant in the jealous ex pression of the eye--and he pours new life, and' truth, freshness, into all the magnificent delineations of human pas sion, and all the powerful displays of high-wrought conflicting emotions, stirring stornifully the very depths of the soul I His delivery, at one crisis of doubt and anguish, of the sen tence— " If thou dost slander her, and torture me, Never pray more ' • abandon all remorse; On horror's h ea d horrors accumulate; Do deeds to make Heaven weep, all earth amazed; For nothing canst thou to damnation add Greater then that," was a resplenee it and unsurpassed triumph of genius—so thundered forth fr)m the very throne of passion as to form a wide but glorious contrast to the subdued and grieving eloquence with which he had just before uttered the beautiful episode of poetry which ends with the me morable words " Othello's occupation's gone." All the latter pass :,(ges of the tragedy were given by Macready with equal mastery of mird, and his death was a fine crowning icene to a very admirable performance. In speaking of Mr. Y indenhoff as lago we are quite reedy to award him high praise for spirit and cleverness in giving us the character such as he thinks it ought to be; but we must earnestly protest against his conception being the correct one. On the contrary, we think it robs the part of its finish, and wraps it in an cute ard garment of villainy which Shakspeare never intended it to wear. lago is not the open boasting scoundrel of a melodrama—he is the "honest, hon-eat" gentle man who is quite satisfied with knowing that he is full of all manner of vice, without being at all anxious that it shculd ap pear in his tone and bearing. We, theret. re, think that the passages whi c h M r. Vandenhoff gave in his best style—and which would h ave di. p l ayed the actor to the greatest advan tage h a d t h ey been true to the meaning —were in reality but so many misreading% of the poet. The point, however, is one of opinion ; and we cannot disparage Mr. Vandenhoff's style of sustaining his own, although we think it gay s e a coarseness and indelicacy to one of the moat finished of the characters of Shakspeare. Let us repeat, however, that Mr. Vandenhoff played well in the style in which he thought it well to play. He allays spoke and acted effectively, if not correctly. Mr. Anderson played Cassio with care and spirit, and Vining Roderigo moderately well. Miss Helen Faucit's Desdemona was not a remarkable, though a very creditable, performance. Mrs. Warner as Emilia was trium phantly suecersful. Her acting was powerful, impressive, and even original. All the appointments of the tragedy were attended to in the full spirit of Mr. Macready's promises, and the scene of the Senate was especially beautiful and appro priate. After the play Mr. Macready was called for, and came forward amid clamours of applause, and the waving - of hats and handkerchiefs. Then Vandenhoff underwent a similar ordeal ; and, finally, Mr. Anderson led on Mrs. Warner and Miss Faucit to be complimented after the same absurd fashion. SPANISH FUNDS. It is not generally known that the Spanish Government, as an aid to the Treasury, have been engaged for some time past in making sales of land, the property of the Crown, but which, from the mode of payment permitted, cannot have brought in any very large sum in ready money, The sales are periodical to a certain extent in each month, and proceed on the basis of a valuation rendered to the Government, wide valuation, according to the returns made up to July last, seems to have been rather more than doubled. The deposit on making the purchase is 20 per cent., which is taken in Ac tive Stock at par; only one instalment is claimed annually, as follows:—the first year, 10 per cent, in Passive S:eck se cond year, 10 per cent. in Active Stock, and the same an nually for six p.ars more, until the whole of the 100 per cent. is paid. The purchasers have the option of giving 2001. Pas sive for 100/. Active Stock, and the value of the coupons is to be taken as stock. Possession of the lands and the right of collecting the rents is obtained as soon as the deposit is paid. Annexed are the official returns of the sales up to the end of July last : SAL JULY LAST. Estimeted Value Value of Sales iu Peals \Teflon. in Reals Vellon. 820,000 8,916,612 10 119,720 65.340 9,903 1,633,250 266.561 40,645 1,995 900 222,492 2,200,340 2 , 6 60,193 50,000 62,870 372,600 2 00,046 40,080 401 ,807 8 0 _ 1.170,900 1 , 1 58 182 113 .000 305 300 353.200 45 000 ----_ ---- 23,223,961 J 8 1 631 ,825,929 2U 1 655 ,049,891 - 4 Or X 6,500,000 ........ 551 ....... 9,701 10,252 Pr ovinecs. ............... Ba Noz .............. Barcelona ............ Corunna. .............. Caceres .............. Cadiz .................. Cordova ............... Cuenci ............... Granada ................ Guadalajara ......... luesca ............... Jaca ..................... Logrono. ............... Leon ................. Madrid ................ Malaga ............... Oviedo ............... Palenga ............... Salamanca .......•••••• Seville ............... Toledo ..... . ......... Valladolid . ......... Zan-!nra ............... SwagoEa Sales in fore er m To . al ;o July, 1'38.. ►- ~ G. Qn 257,505 31 3,963,019 10 88,533 9 64,124 9,893 568.208 165,684 28.275 675,811 17 151,845 1,302,098 1,377,354 : 25,590 62,507 105,778 16 64,800 20.800 257,760 10 427 730 467.784 47 097 152 467 25 202.000 25,314 10,516.9'9 16 Is ...! 311,199.657 3 321,716,586 19 Number of p . operCrs nev:oLs to July o'cl in July ..... .... • _______________-_ DEATH FROM NEGLECT.--An inquest was held before Mr. J. W. Cowley, OW of the coroners for Bucks, at Shipton Lee, in that county, on the body of James Reed, a middle-aged labourer, who bad, been.eMploy . ed on the Ayles bury railway, It appeared deceased rodged with a man named William Harwood, his decease h e was t a k en ill . O n H orwood at Bierton, near A y l es b ury, and that about a week p rev i ous to fiwto.dri3neg, hh,e,diuditnioiLimpeoronvseultiinnahenanity medicalh,btitbeam gentleman, decad, e moved the p oor man from Bierton to Shipton Lees, his native parish, a di stance of 12 miles, in a com mon o p en car t, it rain ceindriey- ilig the whole distance, and the deceased being at the same time in a state of high, fever and insensibility. The conse quence was that be sur - ived only a few hours after his arrival at Shipton Lee. A medical man was called in to attend him, but the diseas e was too far advanced to render any professional prudent.rernov a l. The Coroner, in summing up, commented aid of th e least possible avail, an d t h e me di ca l man was of opi nion that his death was un d ou b te dl y acce l erate d by the im very strongly on th e b rutal conduct of Ha-wood; and, although there did not appear to be any WOO intention on his part to hasten th e pour man's death, it still became a most important question whether, upon the evidence adduced, he was not guilty of m anslaughter. Putting it in the most favourable light, he was grossly negligent in not calling in a medical man before the removal. The Jury, after much hesitation, re turned a verdict of " Died by the visitation of God." At the p same time t h ey begged to observe that they could not remove from thei r m i nds a d„e impression that Horwood's conduct was of th e most revolting and disgusting nature, and that it was very f ortunate for him the evidence was not sufficiently strong to w arrant them in returning a verdict of manslaughter; and they s i ncerely hoped that it would not only be a warning to him, but to many others connected with great public works, who werein the constant h a bi t. o f remov i ng p oor men to a great distanc e i n a state most unjustifiable. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—An inquest was held last evening at Charing Cross Hospital on the body of a young man named Edwards, whose death was noticed yesterday, as having been occasioned by throwing himself from his bed-room window i nto Adela ide -street, being at the time in a fit of de and the j ury returned a verdict of lirium, ar i s i ng from illness. No additional facts were elicited, "Temporary insanity." The Dubli n E ven i ng Ma il o f W e d nes d ay re i terates its compl a i nt o f the ddatoriness of the Post-office Department. MONEY AND CIT Y NEWS. (FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.) TIMES.—It will be remembered that about two years ago a project was started for the establishment of a Joint-Stock Bank for India, which was not carried into effect in conse quence of the monetary crisis which followed. According to a prospectus which has recently made its appearance, it would seem the project is revived under the designation of the " Bank of British Asia." In this document the want of bankin g facilities in India is assumed without the enumeration of any precise facts in proof, excepting those may be regarded in the light which refer to the high rates of interest generally pre valent in that quarter of the world as elsewhere. But high current rates for money may be referable to other causes besides the actual scarcity of money, or the ab sence of banking facilities, as, for example, to instance no other exception, they may be owing to the change able or unsafe value of property and securities of any kind, from political or whatever other causes arising. The rates of interest are high in many countries under different circumstances, such as in Havannab, where they range from 10 to 25, and even 30 per cent. per annum ; yet it will not be denied that there is perhaps scarcely a city in the world where capital is more abundant. The rates of interest have been also high, if now not so much so, in the United States, which generally could not have been the effect of want of credit or capital. In countries where the rate of profits is high, the value of money, as of any other commercial instrument of ex change, will rise in proportion ; and on the contrary, as in Holland, where both profits and interest are on a low scale. But it may be collected from various passages of the pro spectus, that a species of commercial dealing also is con templated for the " Bank of Asia," at least such is the sense in which such passages will be understood as those where it is stated that the objects of the Bank, among others, will be to " encourage by prudent liberality the export of British and Irish cammodities, or to increase the use of European manufactures, and to promote the growth and im portation of colonial productions," &c. ; the " difficulty and delay in sales of goods" are to be obviated, and " any goods or property held in security shall be collateral ;" from which it would result that advances are intended to be made upon commodities or goods, which would invest the bank at once with the character of a commission establishment. One of theAlelge 1 / 2 4 e4roinoters is avowed to be the " circulation of notes," or, in other words, the creation and extension of a paper money circulation. It is not exactly clear what advantages will be derived to India from the introduction of what is called capital in such a shape, fur this would imply that the intent was not to introduce capital so much as to establish a system of trading upon credit, and dispensing as far as possible with capital. It may be observed, that if banks of discount and deposit, or the extension of ti.cm, would be a convenience and means of security in India, as they might be, the more regular coarse would be to feel the way to such establishments from hence by previous inter cGuree or correspondence with capitalists in that country, where such exist, both British and native; the latter more especially, possessed of wealth adequate to enterprises of any extent, and with local knowledge, the result of experience, adequate to secure their success, which can only be acquired by long experience on the spot, the absence of which in the managers or parties interested in any speculation could never be compensated, even by the command of a large mass of sub sctibed capital, which, spread over a wide field of operations in a comparatively unknown country, would be more liable to a variety of risks not foreseen, and therefore not provided against. CH RONICLE.—Thrre is still much more business than usual going on in Spanish Securities, and various rumours con tinue current as to the cause of the recent rise ; but we have not been able to learn an)thing authentic on the subject, and refrain, therefore, from giving publicity to what may, perhaps, have no foundation. From the extensive purchases which have been made by some of the leading hankers, it would, how ever, appear that there is something on the lapis. We continue without any arrivals of moment besides the usual daily mails, and the wind . being in the east, there is a probability of our being for some days without anything further. POST—The only circumstance of the least interest which :ranspired during the day in this part of the town related to he corn averages, and the receipts at the Treasury far the current quarter. It WAS reported that upon the making up of the public accounts on the 10:h instant, an improvement of more or less amount would be the almost certain result, as compared with the returns f,r. the corresponding quarter of last year, and that such will be the case is hardly to be .ques tioned, as fort una t e l y t h ere has, within the period specified, been a gu , ater, degree of ac ti v i ty in every b ranc h o f our national industry than for many months preceding. With respect to the corn averages, it appears that the price of wheat for the week ended the 28th of last month, was Vs.lld., and for the six weeks terminating on the same day, 68s. 7d. per quarter. The duty is consequently declared to be now 16s. Bd. per quarter. As prices ar,, still rattier upon the advance than otherwise in Mark-lane, it is highly probEble that the importations from the corn growing countries in the north of Europe may be perse vered in for some time longer, and, should any considerable e,ll tutity be cleared at or about the high rate of duty this day established, Mr. S. Rice may congratulate himself upon so important and so seasonable an accession _of revenue with which to cover in some measure the deficiencies of the Bud. get. However sever,Ay the heavily-taxed farmer or land proprietor may suffer from the competition of the foreign corn grower, whose commodity is, comparatively speaking, free from all fiscal imposts, a windfall of this nature, com ing as it does at a moment of embarrassment, will be very sure to be welcomed by the. Right Honourable Gentle man and his colleagues with a smiling countenance. It has bean shown by the late Corn Exchange Reports, that the price of wheat is gradually though slowly rising in the Lon don market, and this in the face of the most gratifying ac counts from all parts of the country, as well as from the Con tinent, regarding the crops ; but as such a * state of things must be the mere effect of speculation, it can scarcely fail but that the parties engaged in the traffic will, as we have ven tured to anticipate, find themselves saddled in the end with vary serious, if not absolutely ruinous, losses. The impression of well informed persons seems still to be that the crops of wheat will turn out to be at least an excellent average both in England and on the C o nti nen t, w hil e b arley and some other articles of grain are uncommonly abundant. From the United States and the British American Colonies the accounts of the harvest arc not less encouraging than those received from other quarters. . The Belgian papers mention tlvit some considerable loss has been sustained by the gamblers in Spanish Bends at Brus sels and at -Antwerp by a fabricated report of the Carlist city of Estella having fallen into the hands of Espartero. The Bonds in question are altogether a disreputable thing to have any concern in, and we confess we sympathise but little with those individuals, either in Belgium or elsewhere, who have suffered by the desperate game they have so long been playing in them. The holders here are said to be placing their chief reliance once more on an accommodation being effected be tween the usurping Government and Don Carlos. HERA LD.—By the recent advices from our West Indian settlements we find that, in consequence of the perfect eman cipation of the negroes, the demand for silver coin of all de nominations had so vastly increased that the planters were put to the greatest inconvenience in order to obtain small coins wherewith to pay the wages of their now free servants, and that it has, in consequence, been contemplated by some firms in the West India trade here to send out tokens, or checks, the denomination of the different amounts of the colonial currency, which, on, the credit' of the estate from whence they were to be issued to the negrcics, would pass current with the tradesmen with whom they dealt, and would be redeemed by the attorneys of the estate when they arrived at a sufficient amount to be liquidated in bank currency. There are, however, some very strong objections to the adoption of this mode of supplying the deficiencies in the local currency of the different islands ; in fact, the plan is on a par with the " 7ommy ticket" system of the Staf fordshire and Lancashire manufacturers a f, w years ago, and equally open to the same abuses, if not more so. 13t,t our clear-sighted Whig Ministry are more to blame than tIL_, plant: rs, who thus have conti.mplated to create an adjusting currency, for which they ought to have previously provided ; since it is well known that the point was strongly pressed upon them many months since. At the eleventh hour, we under stand, Government have resolved upon taking some steps to remedy this great inconvenience, and at this time we believe coins suitable to the colonial currency are preparing at the Mint, but this act of justice to the Colonists was not thought of until after strong remonstrances froiii the West Ulan body bad been made. _ _ ~A few cia} , ;kgo we noticed bow much the promotion of in ternal navigation and railroads throughout the •United States had advanced the commerce of that country. In reference to this important improvement in the march of internal com merce, and in support still further of what we then advanced, we draw the attention of.our commercial readers to the follow ing extract from the Pittsburg Paper, a Pennsylvanian journal, received by the last at rival, which fully explains the advan tages that have been obtained for the commerce of the United States by a perseverance in extending internal canal naviga tion and rail-road communication The steatn. boat Hudson has arrived here with a full cargo of tobacco, destined for the Philadelphia market, which she received at Nashville, and at Cairo, Tennessee, 90 miles above Nashville, on the Cumberland river. The tobacco is now going forward by canal. The freight hither from• Nash. vile, ow this shipment, is eight dollars per hogshead ; as hogs ! . heads from the Cumberland river generally average about fourteen hundred pounds each, the cost per hundred pounds to this point is 57 cents. The expense here will be about 75 cents. per hogshead, or say six cents. per 1001bs., and the freight hence, by canal, 87 cents., making the total cost to Philadelphia from Nashville one dollar and fifty cents. per hundred pounds. Let it be borne in mind that, owing to the embarrassments of trade, and a diminished transportation of goods westward, freight on the article, and indeed on all pro duce hence to Philadelphia, is 40 per cent. higher now than heretofore. Tobaeco, which could be delivered in Philadel phia last year for 62 cents., pays a freight this year of 87 cents., notwithstanding a liberal reduction of tolls; the freight from Nashville too is higher than may hereafter be demanded ; yet, under all these disadvantages we see important shipments of tobacco have been made from the head of navigation on the Cumberland to Philadelphia, by way of the Ohio river, Pitts burg, and the Pennsylvania canals." It is generally understood that the present quarter's revenue will exhibit very considerable improvement, not only in conse z quence of the late payments for duty on th e i m portation of foreign c orn , b ut from an increase in the exc i s e duties. T favourable circumstances, so far as an extension in the public mblie revenue is c ons id ere d , has, however, bad but litt l e_ pressure for oT II upon o ur pu b lic securities. There is still a P money out o f d oors, an d i n t h e F or , i gn n r Exchang es , i t i s worth from 3 to 4 per cent , f rom day to day. on Stock the T PiuIACIIUTE A.T CHELTENHAM. We are enabled tc-day to supply some additional particular respecting Mr. Hamt ton's parachute descent at Cheltenham, on Wednesday. Our informant wishes us to correct a material error, into which he with the great rnaj eity of the spectators was led, and %bleb he bad no means of rectifying until after post hour. It wis gcnerall ysuppestd that Mr. Hampton, when he detached the parachute from the balloon, had caused the gas to ignite. This supposition is accounted for from the circumstance of the balloon having, at that instant, passed an extremely bright cloud, which, when the gas exploded, pre_ sented to the spectators the appearance of lambent flame. Had such an experiment been attempted, it must have beer, at great personal risk to the aeronaut, the para hute not having de e( eade d many yards from the balloon. Our informant has since conversed with Mr. Hampton, who said he was not at all sur prised at the misconception, for that the explosion had precisely the same appearanc e to himself. Mr. Hampton describes the way in a hich he effected the separation as follows :—Al though, from the conditions imposed upon him by the Pro prietors of Montpelier Gardens, he had neglected some ne cessary preparations, yet he had secretly resolved to make the descent; with this view he caused a slight line to be passed through the centre of the balloon, one end of which was made fast to the silk, the other descending through the orifice at top of the parachute into the basket. When the balloon had ascended from the gardens to the proposed height, he cut away the stay-ropes, and the machine rose rapidly until it at. tained, as he suppeses, an altitude of ono mile and a quarter, or about 6,000 feet. Being then is a geatle current of air, he judged it expedient to detach the parachute, which he ac complished by cutting the rope connecting it with the balloon, at the same time lidding in the other hand the line attached to the silk. The separation of the two machines, and the explosion of the gas, were therefore nearly simultaneous ; so nearly, that Mr. Hampton declares that the repot t resembl d a thunder-clap. When the ges had escaped the balloon col lapsed, and descending with great rapidity, reached terra firma some minutes before the parachute. The latter never swerved from its equilibrium, but floated gently downwards, at the rate, as Mr. Hampton calculates, of about 500 le 2t per minute. The descent was elected, as me st ted yes terday, in a field at Badgeaorth, the property of a gentleman named Hicks. The time occupiedewes twelve minutes and forty seconds, which, Assuming the etitude allowed to hove been 6,000 feet, would' give that result. The aggregate weight of the parachute, basket, and ballast, added to the aeronaut's own weight, was 328 lbs. Of this he had dis charged 56 lbs. of ballast in his descent, but another bag of 36 11)3., placed outside the basket, be was unable to detach without the risk of leaning over; could he have :succeeded in doing so, the descent must have been much more gra dual. With the exception of a superficial Wound cv2r the left eye, Mr. Hampton has sustained no injury whatever: The parachute and balloon (in the latter of which there is a rent from top to bottom), were exhibited in the Montpelier Gar. dens to-day (Thursday), Mr. Hampton being present to an swer any inquiries. He is at this moment the great " lion" • with the folks and fashionables of Cheltenham. There were reports in circulation that he had heavy bets on the result, which, however, he denies. The following is an extract from a letter addressed by Mr. Hampton to the Editor of the Cheltenham Chronicle, which we copy from a second edition of that paper : CHELTENHAM, WEDNESDAY EVENING. —After leaving the earth my sensations were of the most delightful kind. The eve ning turned out very propitious, and ray satisfaction in having reduced one of the most novel and extraordinary exhibitions which have been for many years a matter of considerable doubt with the most celebrated aeronauts, to a perfect safety, must be to me, and to every admirer of aeroatation, a very gratifying result. At the altitude of about 9,000 feet I cast my eye to the different portions of my apparatus, and finding everything as I considered perfect, my mind was made up for the awful moment—that it was an awful moment, no one, be whomsoever lie may, or possessing the most cast-iron nerve, cannot but acknowledge that in such a situation, a struggle es it were, between life and death, must have been of no very mporary description. However, my nerves were, thank Providence, perfectly collected and firm ; and armed as I was with a good weapon, I hesitated not, but applied my I.nife to the only cord which held me between Heaven and the vast abyss beneath me. The effort was mo. mentary—my balloon ascended from me immediately after the separation for some hundred feet, and with a ter, ific noise rushed through the atmosphere, and in the space of a few seconds only, burst over my head with the violence of a thunderbolt —but I was pleased to find in unison with my original plan, collapsed, and reached the earth before I did myself. My descent was of the most gradual and progressive description, my sense of danger being wholly divested • being convinced fr om t h e very easy and strictly perpendicular line that I found myself approaching terra firma, and that any de gree of doubt as to my safety was not for a moment question able. Indeed so fa from a supposed violent rate of velocity having taken place during the descent, at various times the pa. rachute was almost stationary, and had it not been that a a safety hag containing about 301bs. of ballast attached to my car (an appendage usually adopted by all aeronauts, by way of breaking the fall, as it may be termed in plain language) hastened my power of descent, I must have reached the ground under the mast perfect quiet and pleasing gravity, as the time from my sepaiatiog the cord to my reaching the emus was only thirteen minutes, being then at a distauce of one mile and a quarter in altitude. As I purpose giving a more explanatory description of my detecnt in public, I must beg to abstain from further trespass on )our columns, Remaining, with much gratitude, Yours 'very respectfully, JOHN HAMPTON. REGISTRATI6N-THURSDAY. MIDLESEX. Messrs. C OVENTRY and SII D ADV% ILL held their Courts at the Court-house, Marylelyrne, yesterday, to revise the lists of voters for the parishes of St. Lmes, W'estminster ; St. George, Hanover -square ; St. Anne, St. Pancras, St. Marylebone, aryl Paddington. No case of any interest occurred in either Court. The result of the day's revision is as follows: ST. samEs's, VVESTNIINSTRR. Overseers Reformers Tories. 13 a 1:1 1...... ST. GI ORG E , Tie% NOVER SQUARR. 1...... 4 1 1 Objecticns . ............... Sustained . Objections Sustained . ...... a ...... 2 T. ANNE. Ojections Sustained 10 7 ST. PANCRAS. Objections Sustained 10 4 ST. MARTLEBONK. Objections Sustained . . 16 PADDINGTON. Objections Sustained 0 The Courts will be held to-morrow (this day) at the Whito Conduit-house Tavern, Pentonville. CITY OF LONDON. (Before Mr. CRAIG.) In the parochial list of St. Beret's Finck, the name of Mr. Betts, the music-seller, was objected to by the Reformers, on the ground of non-occupancy for a sufficient period. It ap t), ared that Mr. Betts had a shop, &c., under the Royal Ex change, which was destroyed by fire in the night between the 9th and 10th of January. He removed into his present pre mises on the 31st of Janust v, and it w:s contended by Mr. Holmes, on the pia of the Reformers, that there was a defi ciency in the continuous holding required by the Reform Act. Mr. CRAIG coLsidered the qualification sufficiently cor►ti nuous to justify him in inserting the name of Mr. Betts in the' list of voters. The objection, therefore, fell to the ground. In the parochial list of St. Botelph, Aldgate, the names of fifty Jews were objected to by the Conservatives, on the ground of being alit-ns. The proceedings, however, were not of general interest. COUNTY OF HERTFORD. The Revising. R,uristers, Messrs. Deedes and Onslow, met yesterday at the Shire hall, Hertford, to revise the lists of the several parishes in the district. _ THE NEW RIVER SHAREHOLDERS-IMPORTANT DECISION. Upon the Great Am. well list a number of gentlemen claimed to vote as holders of shares in the New River Corn- The Overseers objected to the names remaining -on ,any. he list. Mr. Gregory took an objection that in the list of names ob jected to the Overseer had put a brace to several names, and written against them once only the words ‘‘ objected to," which he contended did not apply to all the names, end, in point of fact, could not be taken to apply to any of the names. He should submit that the Court could not entertain the objection. The Banisters decided that the objection was fatal, and that all these names min.t stand upon the list. The other cases decided were not of any public im ,rtallee; PItEEMA SONRT.--The installation of the W. M. of St. Luke's. Lodge, at the New Stag Trivern, Chelsea, on the Ist inst., was numerously attend e d by t h e C ra f t , t hi s b e ing the 73d anniversary of the Lodg e i n thi s p ar i s h, f rom which it derives its very appropriate name ; the warrant having been granted in .1765, by the then Grand Master, the Earl of Moira. The able manner in which the Installing. Nlaster, Brother Raekstraw, conduc'ei this Ancient and imposing rite, elicited, as it deserved, the cordial and sincere thanks of the brethren present. The LOdge, to mark its high sense of the zeal and ability displayed by Brother Leadley, the immediate Past-Master, voted its thanks, with the expression of regret at his contemplated residence in a ( w lis vi t l a a n c t o P ro a p rt a o ny f England, hi wh ere es the best wishes of the brethren INFANTICIDE IN FRANCE. —The number of infan ticides and desertions of new-b ,rn children seems to be in a A fewevenings since, a female infant, not three s in g o e n t r he s r ) 0 , lida?.. was found in an unfinished housa in th e rue cre m des Martyrs. Some passers - by, attracted by its cr i es, too k i t up, and conveyed it to the Commissary of Police of the quaker. On the following morning the dead body of a nem-born child, wrapped in cloth, was discovered under a tree in the Alice des Veuves, Champs Elysees. A new mail-carriage has A t r c a s r L . ; g road by way of trial. It is being formed as a coupe, with side and front lfiugshtNt a' w Eeni i edv a n d ep c; u w mit s Am , o a njo n rd' d tit Caeu'' commodious, at for the Courier behind. Under this seat, and in front of the vehicle, ehiele,are boxes to receive the letter hags, s, n a ot appear nd,w.be t i o be any i i6ve, luggagetn;erial. of Thereth e passengers, are two lamps as there out. side, and a third which throws light into the interior. A